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2022 MLD 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID YOUSAF VS State S.344---Power to postpone or adjourn proceedings---Imposition of costs---Scope---While interpreting a provision of law, approach is to be dynamic, purposive and meaningful, while also keeping in view of preva…
2022 MLD 1363 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KHALID VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.12---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. VII, R.11---Contract Act (IX of 1872), Ss.11 & 28---Suit for specific performance---Rejection of plaint---Agreements in restraint of legal proceedings…
2022 MLD 1363 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KHALID VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.115---Civil revision---Scope---Concurrent findings on facts should not be interfered in routine, but in an extra-ordinary circumstance, when the courts below have committed serious jurisdiction…
2022 MLD 1363 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KHALID VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.28---agreements in restraint of legal proceedings void---Scope---Section 28 of Contract act, 1872, declares any contract to be void restricting "absolutely" the parties from enforcing their rig…
2022 MLD 1363 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KHALID VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.115---Civil revision---Scope---High Court, in the case of concurrent findings, normally does not interfere unless the same are a result of exercise of jurisdiction not vested in the courts belo…
2022 MLD 1363 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD KHALID VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.28---agreements in restraint of legal proceedings void---Scope---Document must be construed and read as a whole and S.28 of Contract act, 1872, applies where there is absolute restraint against…
2022 MLD 1378 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABDUL RAZAQ VS IFTIKHAR HUSSAIN S.12---Suit for specific performance---Non-payment of balance sale consideration---Effect---Respondents filed suit for specific performance of agreement to sell against vendors alleging therein that they had…
2022 MLD 1411 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FAROOQ ARSHAD VS Mst. SHAZIA WASEEM Ss.12, 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXIX, Rr.1 & 2---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Interim injunction---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell…
2022 MLD 1411 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
FAROOQ ARSHAD VS Mst. SHAZIA WASEEM S.115---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Civil revision---Conversion of proceedings---Principle---Respondent raised objection to maintainability of revision application---Petitioners contended that hi…
2022 MLD 1444 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WAQAR HUSSAIN BHATTI VS State S.498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss.24 & 489-F---Dishonoring of cheque---Pre-arrest bail, grant of---Company cheques---Accused was arrested for issuing seven chequer during the course of business transactions…
2022 MLD 1444 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
WAQAR HUSSAIN BHATTI VS State S.489-F---Dishonoring of cheque---Registration of FIR---Delay---Effect---Delay in registration of FIR is not always fatal for prosecution, more particularly in cases involving white collar crimes or where entir…
2022 MLD 1474 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. MUKHTAR BEGUM VS Mst. MUMTAZ ASGHAR (DECEASED) S.12---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art.113, second part---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell---Limitation---Concurrent findings of facts by two Courts below---Suit filed b…
2022 MLD 1501 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. GHULAM FATIMA, (DECEASED) VS MUHAMMAD KHAN Ss.42 & 54---Suit for declaration and injunction---Limitation---Gift---Mutation---Proof---Concurrent findings of facts by two Courts below---Misreading and non-reading of evidence---Petitioner…
2022 MLD 1523 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM MUSTAFA VS ANILA SHAHZADI S.5, Schd. & S.17-a---Suit for maintenance----Interpretation of S.17-a(3) of Family Courts act, 1964 [Punjab amendment]---Retrospective Effect---Respondent (wife) filed application before Execution Court see…
2022 CLC 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHIR AHMAD VS KHADIM HUSSAIN S.12---Transfer of Property Act (IV of 1882), S.53-A---Specific performance of agreement to sell---Title over property---Part performance---Effect---Mere agreement to sell does not create any title and it cann…
2022 CLC 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHIR AHMAD VS KHADIM HUSSAIN S.12---Suit for specific performance of agreement to sell---Agreement---Proof---Pre-conditions---Misreading and non-reading of evidence---Respondent/plaintiff sought specific performance of agreement to sell r…
2022 CLC 1300 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHIR AHMAD VS KHADIM HUSSAIN S.12---Specific performance of agreement--- Scope---Such is a discretionary relief under Specific Relief Act, 1877---Even if agreement is proved, Court is not bound to decree the suit in the light of prayer bu…
2022 MLD 1531 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AZAM VS State S.324---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 497---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Bail---Scope---Offence under S. 324, P.P.C. entails punishment upto 10 years and attracts the stringency of prohibitory clause of S.…
2022 MLD 1531 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AZAM VS State S.497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 324, 109 & 34---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, abetment and common intention---Bail, refusal of---Successive fire shots---Scope---Accused sought bail after arrest in a case wherein…
2022 MLD 1531 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AZAM VS State S.324---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Scope---Language of S. 324, P.P.C., is explicit in sense and leaves no room for discussion that an act of accused towards taking the life of his adversary is made punishable with…
2022 MLD 1555 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BUSHRA BIBI VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE O.XXXVII, R.2---Negotiable Instruments Act (XXVI of 1881), Ss.29 & 29-A---Summary suit for recovery of money---Liability of legal representative signing---Signature essential to liability---Scope---R…
2022 MLD 1577 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BILAL AHMAD VS State Ss.302(b) & 34---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 46---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Dying declaration---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the decease…
2022 MLD 1577 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BILAL AHMAD VS State Ss.302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of sixteen hours in lodging the FIR---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the deceased by inflicting c…
2022 MLD 1577 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BILAL AHMAD VS State Medical evidence---Scope---Medical evidence at the most was confirmatory/corroborative piece of evidence, therefore, if the direct evidence was disbelieved, the medical evidence would play no role for the purpose of con…
2022 MLD 1577 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BILAL AHMAD VS State art.46---Dying declaration---Scope---Dying declaration must be free from any outside prompting that means that at the relevant time no one had to be there to influence the deceased---Not only that, but also no one met t…
2022 MLD 1603 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IMRAN VS State Ss.302 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Inordinate delay in conducting post-mortem on the dead body of the deceased---Scope---Accused in furtherance of their common…
2022 MLD 1603 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IMRAN VS State Ss.302 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Defence plea---Scope---Accused in furtherance of their common intention committed murder of deceased by firing---Stance of th…
2022 MLD 1603 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IMRAN VS State Ss.302 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Improvement made by eyewitnesses---Scope---Accused in furtherance of their common intention committed murder of deceased by f…
2022 MLD 1621 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KUNDAN MAI VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, MULTAN S.14---appealable order---Final decision---Where an express provision of law provided a remedy to enforce a right and the court passes an order relating to the same, which order even if an inter…
2022 MLD 1621 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KUNDAN MAI VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, MULTAN S.14---appealable order---Phrase 'decision given'---Interlocutory order pertaining to final determination---Scope---Every order passed during the pendency of a family suit could not be treated a…
2022 MLD 1621 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KUNDAN MAI VS JUDGE FAMILY COURT, MULTAN Ss.14 & 21a---Phrase 'a decision given'---alternate remedy, availability of---Suit for dower accompanied with application for interim injunction---Petitioner/plaintiff/wife of the deceased claim…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Ss. 302(b), 364, 201, 404, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, dishonest misappropriation of…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Ss. 302(b), 364, 201, 404, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, dishonest misappropriation of…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Ss.302(b), 364, 201, 404, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, dishonest misappropriation of…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Ss.302(b), 364, 201, 404, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, dishonest misappropriation of…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Ss.302(b), 364, 201, 404, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, dishonest misappropriation of…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Ss. 302(b), 364, 201, 404, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abduction in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, dishonest misappropriation of…
2022 MLD 1636 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TANVEER ABBAS VS State Extra-judicial confession---Scope---Extra-judicial confession under the recognized principles is the weakest type of evidence and no conviction can be recorded on the basis thereof.
2022 MLD 1693 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. TAHIRA PARVEEN VS DISTRICT JUDGE, LAYYAH Ss.17 & 25 ---Custody of minor---Welfare of minor as paramount consideration rather than the right of the parents---Minor boy aged seven year---Mother (petitioner) contracted second marriage and…
2022 MLD 1693 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. TAHIRA PARVEEN VS DISTRICT JUDGE, LAYYAH Ss.17 & 25---United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Art.12(1)---Custody of minor---Minor's right of choice---Right of choice also based on the practice of companions---Choice of a…
2022 MLD 1693 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. TAHIRA PARVEEN VS DISTRICT JUDGE, LAYYAH ----Ss.17 & 25---Mother contracting second marriage---Right of custody---Ordinarily, a woman is entitled to custody of a minor but she forfeits her right of custody on contracting second marriag…
2022 MLD 1720 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD LIAQAT ALI VS MAJID ALI S.28---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Alternate remedy---Statutory appeal---Scope---Ejectment order being the "final order" within the contemplation of Ss.2(b) & 22(6) of t…
2022 MLD 1720 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD LIAQAT ALI VS MAJID ALI S.22---Ejectment---Rent Tribunal, power/discretion of---Scope---When the application for leave to contest was rejected, the Rent Tribunal was bound to pass a final order---Such order would not absolve the Tr…
2022 MLD 1720 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD LIAQAT ALI VS MAJID ALI S.22---Ejectment---Stage for determination of arrears/utility bills---Determination of rent/order of payment of rent or outstanding utility bills could only be made by the Rent Tribunal while granting the ap…
2022 MLD 1720 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD LIAQAT ALI VS MAJID ALI Ss.2(b) & 22---Ejectment---Default in payment of rent and utility bills, misuse of property, violation of the terms/conditions of tenancy agreement and expiry of tenancy---Application for leave to contest wa…
2022 MLD 1734 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QAMMAR ABBAS VS MUMTAZ AHMED MINHAS arts.17 & 79---agreement to sell----Proof---Petitioner/plaintiff instituted suit for specific performance of contract against respondents before Trial Court while plaintiff/ petitioner asserted that first…
2022 MLD 1734 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QAMMAR ABBAS VS MUMTAZ AHMED MINHAS arts.72 & 79-Execution of document---Proof of content of a document---Scope---Execution of document would not only mean mere signing or putting thumb impressions, but must be proved that same was so made…
2022 MLD 1745 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TUFAIL MUHAMMAD VS NAZAR HUSSAIN S.12---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art.113---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VI, R.2 & O.VII, R. 2---Suit for specific performance---Oral agreement---Pleadings---Subject-matter of the suit is immovable…
2022 MLD 1745 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TUFAIL MUHAMMAD VS NAZAR HUSSAIN O.VI, R. 2 & O. VIII, R. 2---Pleadings to state material facts and not evidence---New facts must be specifically pleaded---Maxim: Secundum allegata et probata---Scope, party has to first plead facts and plea…
2022 MLD 1745 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TUFAIL MUHAMMAD VS NAZAR HUSSAIN S.12---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VI, R.2---Suit for specific performance---Oral agreement---Pleadings---Scope---When a case is instituted on the basis of oral agreement, minute detail of each and e…
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